#VIRTAAL TRANSLATION MAC#
#VIRTAAL TRANSLATION WINDOWS#

More features are listed on the VirTaal web site but I don't understand all of them (some of them apply only to languages that I don't speak, eg something about target language punctuation adaptation or something like that).

#VIRTAAL TRANSLATION WINDOWS#

Other features include spell-checking (doesn't work on Windows), autocomplete (works on Windows also), and limited syntax highlighting.

VirTaal is built upon the Translate Toolkit base classes, which also include QC filters such as punctuation checking, capitalisation checking, XML tag checking etc, which will probably be in some next version of VirTaal as well. The infrastructure exists to limit a search to only the source or target text, but that feature has not yet been implemented (hopefully soon, though). You can make the search case sensitive, and you can also use Python regular expressions in the search box. In 'Search' mode, Ctrl+up and Ctrl+down takes you to the previous or next segment that matches the search string. In 'Incomplete' mode, Ctrl+up and Ctrl+down takes you to the previous or next untranslated or fuzzy segment. In the 'All' mode, Ctrl+up and Ctrl+down takes you to the direct previous or next segment. VirTaal has segment filtering (but they call it 'modes'). In contrast to PoEdit, for example, the untranslated and fuzzy strings in VirTaal are not grouped together, so you always translate and view stuff in context. But the active segment has the source and target text shown above-and-below, which personally I think makes it easier to translate and proofread stuff. In VirTaal, the source and target text is displayed side-by-side, and you can scroll through the entire file quickly. I'll probably get in trouble for saying this but I think one should think of this version of VirTaal as a new, simpler PO editor. The current version can't open a file in one format and save it in another format, but the infrastructure for it already exists and it will likely be in a future version. VirTaal can edit POT, PO and MO (Gettext files), XLF (both HTML and PO dialects, but probably some unofficial dialects also), TS and QPH (Qt Linguist files), TMX and TBX (two exchange formats) and WF TXT (Wordfast TM files).

#VIRTAAL TRANSLATION MAC#

It is GPL (open source) and works on Windows and Linux (and theoretically Mac also, but don't hold your breath yet). It is called VirTaal (the name is an Afrikaans play on words). The local localisation company I sometimes do work for,, has released a public release of their little translation tool.

Virtaal translation